Morecambe, The Beach 1888
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More about this scene
'The sands', says the Frith title, but as you can see, central Morecambe has always had a pebble beach, especially at high tide. The stone jetty that we can see in the background was the main terminal for ships to Ireland and the Isle of Man, until Heysham Harbour was cut in the 1900s. The broad, stone-built jetty included sheds as shelter for passengers, as well as loading and unloading facilities, and trains could also back onto the pier, as we see in our photograph. Bathing machines are still in evidence at the edge of the water in this picture, and Morecambe was the proud possessor of about twenty of them when our photograph was taken. Locals always referred to them as 'vans'.
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